Last week, Ohioans began casting ballots in this November’s midterm election. Voters will choose a brand-new slate of state-level leaders from governor to treasurer, a U.S. Senator, and representatives for Congress and the Ohio General Assembly. With three weeks until election day, there’s still a lot of voting to come. So far, data from the […]
Cleveland State University will be offering free tuition for qualified first-year students starting next year. Cleveland State University Board of Trustees recently approved the Cleveland State Commitment, which is for incoming first-year students with at least a 3.0 GPA who are Ohio residents whose families have an adjusted gross income of $125,000 or less. Qualifying […]
Do you celebrate an arsonist who brings a cup of water to a fire they started? Is the president a hero for cutting small, health care relief checks to people struggling under his destructive policies that include the largest rollback of federal support for health care in American history? Will Ohioans being wiped out by […]
In 1836, Cincinnati’s small Jewish community dedicated a synagogue. It was reported to be the first building erected as a synagogue in the western United States. The congregation behind it, B’nai Israel, had been organized twelve years earlier. When it received a charter from Ohio in 1830, it counted 32 adult men and 20 adult […]
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
Cincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars. Cincinnati’s Safe Sleep Lot opened April 30 at William Howard Taft Elementary School and more than 300 people have slept in the lot […]
Israeli forces have raided what they say are the offices of several Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials say a child was injured from Israeli gunfire, while others suffered from tear gas inhalation. At least one journalist was reportedly detained in the raids, which come four years after the forced closure of […]
On Monday, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Washington, D.C., home of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Omar has faced years of racist targeting from President Trump over her ethnicity and immigrant background. She immigrated to the United States as a refugee from Somalia when she was a child. Omar is the first […]
The midterm elections are in less than three weeks, on November 3. With Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress on the line, the Trump administration has thrown its time and resources into holding rallies in newly competitive states. We take a look at key Senate races in Georgia, Texas, Michigan and Maine with The […]
Fighting Escalates in Yemen Between the Houthis and Saudi-Backed Gov’t Forces, NYT: Israel Levels 48 Villages and Towns It Occupies in Southern Lebanon, Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, WSJ: Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai with Two Indicted Fugitives, Federal Agents Subpoena Relatives of Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar, Maine […]
We speak with the Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney about his new documentary Musk, an expansive, nearly four-hour examination of the world’s first trillionaire and how he has amassed unprecedented power in business, technology and politics. The film traces Elon Musk’s early ventures and the rise of SpaceX and Tesla, examining the role of government […]
Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, have repeatedly attacked the Saudi capital of Riyadh in recent days. On Saturday, a missile strike on the airport in Riyadh killed at least 12 and injured over 300 in the deadliest attack on Saudi soil in over a decade. President Trump is now weighing whether to […]
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